Re: TI-H: the ti-hardware list.
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Re: TI-H: the ti-hardware list.
I give up. You have a very good point. And I think my reason to
this letter was this to. I don't complain at the good questions. Here we
have a really good point.
you wrote:
>On the other hand, what irritates me is when people post unresearched (see:
>stupid) questions because they're too lazy to look up the answer.
/PEA
At 16:20 1999-11-03 -0500, you wrote:
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>Since questions involving hardware related to the TI-calcs are few and far
>between, why not? I didn't hear you complaining about the AVR vs. PIC
>microcontroller discussions, either; those weren't strictly on topic, were
>they? This isn't exactly a high-volume list - what's the problem if some
>techies want to talk some unrelated geek shit? You can learn a lot more by
>listening to a broader range of ideas than just what's supposed to be
>on-topic for this list, and anyone who has a question about almost anything
>technical can ask here and find _someone_ who's interested in the topic or
>with at least passing knowledge of the subject. If you can't stomach
>high-level programming (or any other off-topic post), fine- just don't rip
>into those of us who can help. Toss a filter in your mail rules if you
>simply can't bear it.
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>On the other hand, what irritates me is when people post unresearched (see:
>stupid) questions because they're too lazy to look up the answer.
>
>--nick
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>Nick Foster / Bistromath / zaphod@coe.neu.edu
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: John Teffer <jdteffer@c4.net>
>To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:13 PM
>Subject: Re: TI-H: the ti-hardware list.
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>> pea@dalnet.se wrote:
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>> > I have a question to the whole ti-hardware list. Way do you people write
>> > about other stuff than ti-hardware? There is maybe other lists
>> > about these things. But it don't belong in this list. This is the
>ti-hardware
>> > list and nothing else. I don't even like high level programming. So
>please
>> > don't talk high level software and other shit. If it not belong to the
>> > ti-hardware.
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>> I sometimes get the feeling that the people in here like to be
>> the most knowledgeable person in a group about a subject, which
>> would not be the case if they were in a list about that subject.
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>> --
>> Sometimes, for no reason, I have the grim realization that I'm
>> grass. - Stik
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